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It's less a lethal than a Lethean weapon, ie something resembling the river Lethe's mind-numbing waters which induce eternal forgetfulness of everything but better films on the same subject.

From The Guardian • May 22, 2010

And angels came, with silent dew,   Her throbbing brow to lave; And gentle sleep her spirits steep'd,   Within the Lethean wave.

From Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland by Hanna, Abigail Stanley

It is this mood of wearied, benumbed, discouraged, hopeless hope, feebly seeking for the "Lethean peace of the skies" only to find the mind inevitably reverting to the "lost Ulalume," that finds expression.

From Selections from Poe by Gambrill, J. Montgomery

Lo! the god shakes over either temple a bough dripping with Lethean dew and made slumberous with the might of Styx, and makes his swimming eyes relax their struggles.

From The Aeneid of Virgil by Virgil

Other faces, sweet, sad faces, Wafted o'er the Lethean sea, Radiant smile in twilight shadows, But they came not back to me.

From Debris Selections from Poems by Wagner, Madge Morris